Live auction - bpv_443093 - MARCUS AURELIUS Tetrassaria
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| Estimate : | 280 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 25 July 2023 15:09:30 |
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: c. 161-180
Mint name / Town : Hierapolis-Castabala, Cilicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,35 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles à l’usure importante, mais lisible et identifiable. Représentation du droit inhabituelle. Patine verte et sable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Marc Aurèle drapé assis à gauche sur une chaise curule tenant un globe de la main droite tendue, couronné par Niké (la Victoire) volant derrière lui.
Obverse legend : AUT K MA ANTW-NEIN//OS SEB
Obverse translation : (L’empereur, césar Marc Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste juvénile de Dionysos lauré et drapé à droite, le thyrse sur l’épaule ; devant une grappe de raisin.
Reverse legend : IEROPOLI-TWN - PROS TO PURA-M
Reverse translation : (de Hierapolis près du Pyramos).
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(139-03/17/180)
Augustus
Caesar from 139, wearing the consulship for 140, Marc Aurèle receives tribunician power in 147 and succeeds Antonin in 161. His personal reign is marked by the Parthian war (162-165). After the death of Lucius Verus in 169, he had to face the Germanic invasions and the plague which ravaged the Empire. Marcus Aurelius associates his son Commodus with the Empire from 175 and dies of the plague in 180 in Vienna.
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